All Sport Via Limerick GAA The GAA has confirmed that Johnny Murphy from Limerick will be the referee for the 2024 GAA Hurling All-Ireland Senior Championship Final on July 21st, between Clare and Cork, in what will be Johnny’s first Senior Final. Murphy is a member of the Ballylanders club and has also refereed the All-Ireland Minor Final in 2018, U20 All-Ireland Final in 2021, Leinster Hurling Final in 2021, and the All-Ireland Senior Club Final in 2023. In this year’s Hurling Championship, he has refereed Tipperary v Clare in the Munster Championship, two Leinster championship games between Wexford v…
Limerick referee Johnny Murphy will take charge of the 2024 All-Ireland hurling final between Clare and Cork in under a fortnight’s time. It will be a first All-Ireland senior inter-county decider for Murphy, who previously refereed the minor final in 2018, the U20 final in 2021, Leinster final in 2021, and the All-Ireland senior club final in 2023. In this year’s championhip, Murphy oversaw the Tipperary-Clare clash in the Munster championship, as well as the Clare-Wexford quarter-final in Semple Stadium. He also refereed two games in the Leinster SHC – Wexford-Dublin and Dublin-Kilkenny. This campaign is Murphy’s seventh as a…
Referee Johnny MurphyLimerick’s absence from an All-Ireland hurling final for the first time since 2019 has opened the way for Johnny Murphy to take charge of hurling’s biggest game for the first time.The GAA has confirmed that Murphy will be referee for Cork and Clare on Sunday week.Today’s Sports News in 90 Seconds – 11th July Murphy has made quick progress since first taking charge of a Liam MacCarthy game for the first time in 2018. He has refereed an All-Ireland minor final (2018), an U-20 final in 2021 and last year’s club final. At provincial level he was referee…
After two outstanding hurling semi-finals last weekend, it’s the turn of football to take centre stage at Croke Park for the GAA All-Ireland Senior Football Championship semi-finals. BBC Sport NI will have live coverage of both games on BBC iPlayer, BBC Two Northern Ireland and on the BBC Sport NI website with the possibility of an all-Ulster final on 28 July. Armagh, beaten Ulster finalists, face Kerry who knocked out Derry in the quarter finals in the first semi-final on Saturday (13 July). Sarah Mulkerrins presents the live action starting at 5pm for the 5.30pm throw-in and is joined in…
Johnny Murphy has been appointed to referee the All-Ireland hurling final between Cork and Clare. Murphy was always likely to emerge as a strong contender on the back of his native Limerick failing to make the decider for the first time since 2019 and he is the first referee from the county to be given the honour since Pat O’Connor in 2003. Murphy hails from the Ballylanders club and has previously taken charge of the All-Ireland minor final in 2018, All-Ireland under-20 final and Leinster hurling final in 2021 as well as last year’s All-Ireland club final. READ MORE: Cork…